Mr. Speaker, a bombshell was dropped on the cattle industry over the weekend when the Canadian Food Inspection Agency revealed it downgraded Manitoba's tuberculosis free status five years ago. The Liberals neglected to inform the cattle producers, the Manitoba government and the House of Commons of the change in Manitoba's tuberculosis status.
In question period on March 15, in response to my questions, the minister of agriculture stated that all of Canada was TB free. This is clearly not true.
Did the minister not know of Manitoba's change in status or did he just simply mislead the House?